All normal, run-of-the-mill activities for a girl without a job,
currently living at home.
I also
remembered. This time last year, and the
year before, and the year before, I was in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Staff training for Worldview Academy is this
week and it is the first time in three years that I am not attending. This will be the first summer in four years
in which I see no part of camp.
It's a good
thing, this moving on. My time serving
at camp is over, and I know that I have other things to which I am called. But it is strange to be on the outside of
camp. It is odd to not be part of the
stories, the meetings, the lectures, the meals…
It is just
hitting me this week that I am not at camp.
My departure from camp occurred last August, at least physically, but it
took this year's staff training pictures appearing on Facebook for my mind to
catch up.
I know that
I will enjoy things this summer that I have not been able to do because of
camp, such as Vacation Bible School with my church, seeing extended family,
spending nights with my own family talking and sharing life together.
This
transition is just one of many that I am going through or will go through in
the near future, and it is easy to be overwhelmed by the changes. It takes stepping back and reminding myself
of truth - talking to myself, instead of listening to my feelings - to remind
myself that God is taking me somewhere and doing a work in my life that started
long before camp and will continue long after camp. He promises us in Philippians chapter one
that He will continue the work He has started in us. I know this is true and this is the truth I
cling to as life shifts around me. God
is working in me through each of these situations, all of these changes and
transitions and through every day.
"For I
know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the
earth." [Job 19:25]
